Tea Time: real connection in a screen-tired city
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1 season
A weekly tea ritual where phones go in a basket and an SF co-living house becomes a room…
community-economy
Project details match catalog
About
We host Tea Time. You come over, drop your phone in a basket, and we pour you tea. Then we slow down and actually talk. No screens—just warm cups and real people in one room, becoming friends. A pocket of calm inside a loud city.
Impact
Cities are crowded but lonely, and screens make it worse. Tea Time shows connection can be designed. Six of us share a home and open it wide—turning a co-living house into a public living room, and proving that real community is still buildable.
Progress
Waller House is already six people living the experiment—one roof, shared meals. We've hosted tea gatherings for our circle and refined the ritual: phones away, loose-leaf, unhurried hours. People keep coming back. Now we're ready to open wider.
Team
Spent time building community and studying how spaces pull people together. Can pour a proper cup, and ask far too many questions to get pals settled in
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | $2,000 | $0 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $4,000 | $0 | $10 | $2,010 | 0.0x | 1.0x | 1.0x | $0 | — |
| Total | $2,000 | $0 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $4,000 | $0 | $10 | $2,010 | — | — | — | $0 | — |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/tea-time-real-connection-in-a-screen-tired-city
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Not recovered: creator, tags, links, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.